Cathy Sivak

Dippin’ Dots produces more than 40 varieties of ice cream, ice cream cakes, sherbet, flavored ice and frozen yogurt.

Futuristic flash-freeze processing creates Dippin’ Dots ice cream and more in Paducah, Ky.

The Michigan Milk Producers Association spent $62 million to renovate a facility in Ovid, Mich. This new plant operates seven days a week, 24 hours a day. It's the 2010 Plant of the Year.

Flexible new Kleinpeter Farms Dairy ice cream facility mixes up homegrown success.

Fourth generation scoops up new business for Louisiana’s Kleinpeter Farms Dairy.

Equipment makers talk about robotics, software, integration of conveyors and palletizers, and how demands from retailers are changing logistics.

Emmi-Roth Käse USA blends artisan craftsmanship with modern means at Monroe, Wis., facility.

Emmi-Roth Käse USA is based in a region of Wisconsin known as “little Switzerland.” That’s appropriate for this division of dairy giant Emmi AG of  Lucerne, Switzerland. The U.S. producer is shooting for sales of $500 million.